I have completed my challenge of 40 books! Just in the nick of time!

One of the best ways to end the year with a bang 🎆 !! I got to help 10 scholars as published authors. Definitely a turning point for my lab to spread our wings into alcohol & metabolomics Yes these data have been around for a while. But these projects walked through my grief journey and back!

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... I have no idea how I’m gonna make it to Dec 15!!

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Here we go! The 12 days of Christmas 🎄 Academia Style! Share and follow along as we learn how to create boundaries and live in our glow up era!!

Whoop 🙌🏽

For a while it felt like bsky was recapturing the prof involvement of science twitter but not the students (the former PhDs/postdocs of science twitter are the new-profs of bsky 😅). Lately it feels like a lot more students getting on the bus 🧪🦋🚌 🙌🙌🙌 #neuroskyence

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... One more day of gratitude for my padre

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... He’s gone now and I’m so thankful 🥹 we got to spend time together.

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... My dad, their Welo We all cherished the week!

Soft launch of boundaries open.substack.com/pub/tenureda...

Whoop 🙌🏽!!

Yes this is how I make exams at home

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Do you have your conference homies and real talk science besties? 👯

Crazy to believe I’ve been a mom this long

Makes me laugh every time!!

This hits hard. Little did I know this would be the last time I’d see my graduate advisor. I’m so thankful i got these photos. And little did i know i am wearing the same pants and having a giant grant go in today!! She always believed in me. Definitely channeling her energy today!!

tenuredandtardybells.substack.com/p/cc6-the-me... What lessons did you learn from your mentors that you took with you or abandoned as you moved into being a mentor?

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... The Story There was a time I thought hustle was the point — the 80-hour weeks, the back-to-back deadlines, the proof that I was “serious.” That time is now buried somewhere around 2019, right next to my tolerance for instant coffee and unnecessary meetings. …

Anyone else?

Idk why I disappeared from this platform. I think life as an associate chair took over. But an update. My 3 kids are in 3 different schools and I’m still doing all the things. I started a blog so you can follow along Tenuredandtardybells.substack.com Follow along for all the shenanigans!

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Anyone else bogged down with too many invitations to collaborate when all the set really wanted was someone to carry them? Especially early on in the tenure track?

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Here’s another one. Were you taught you always had to be visible to be counted as working?

open.substack.com/pub/tenureda... Antoinette else can relate to this?

It’s times like this that makes me miss my graduate advisor even more!!

When did we start spending $50 on undies for our kids? Jurassic World at that… Times have changed from when we were excited to have the $5 pack that listed the days of the week!!

I remember the days (even last year) when I would wait for an invitation to review manuscripts. Now I get multiple a day multiple times a week… Does this mean I have leveled up?

Love these puppers!!

So it finally happened… I was looking at the profile of K1 when they enter standing next to me and for a split second I saw myself! It’s happened to me before when I Saw my mom in the mirror. Now I’m seeing me in my cold… Creepy…

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Every time I start making big edits to my grad students proposal she starts to have anxiety… Poor thing… But she’s done such a phenomenal job with her synthesis of the literature!! Super proud!!

Continuing to honor the legacy of my late graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting more of our unpublished work on biorxiv I’m especially proud of this work conducted by Dr Ricardo Raudales and Dr. Rosalynn Amante www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Honoring the legacy of my graduate mentor Dr Kirstein Cheryl by posting some of our unpublished work on biorxiv I hope these unpublished findings continue to support the legacy her lab and our work contributes to the field of adolescent addiction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

14 years ago I became a Dr! Can’t believe it’s been that long. Definitely missing my graduate advisor Cheryl Kirstein for IT annual celebratory chat…

Lazy puppies

I am excited to share our newest article that has been published in Behavioural Brain Research Direct link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since my mom’s trip to the ER and her summer downward spiral.

When you’re stuck under a sleeping child with an ache that FINALLY fell asleep…

Don’t you love it when you have to do the the mental math calculation of time differences to call your kids when you’re traveling. 11 am here… 1 pm there… Nope can’t call yes bc they’re still in school. Goes wait till the next break…

Happy gotcha day to my Greysei Mae Devincci!!!

It’s officially pool 🏊 season!!

Sleepy puppy

I am grateful I have these memories!!

Breastfeeding mom life! I don’t miss those days!!

I miss my momma!

It’s been a while since you got a photo of these two!! They say Hi 👋🏽

Always makes me sad

NSF GRFP Awards by the Year: 2021 - 2074 2022 - 2193 2023 - 2555 2024 - 2036 2025 - 1000 Again, these funding cuts will have drastic longterm effects on the scientific future of the US....... @jeremymberg.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social

Some days you just have to get your house right so you can focus on all the other things… Especially during times of emotional chaos… Reminding myself and all those other moms who have to keep it all together in front of your kids… I sure do love mine!!